And if a storm were to come up, and Hudson Bay is 800 miles across, I think, 800 kilometers or 800 miles, anyhow, a giant frickin distance across, if an easterly wind came up, you would just be hammered with nowhere to go.

And then just to make matters worse, when you try to sleep, that section of coast has got a huge concentration of polar bears.

Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. This episode goes back to 2019. We talked to Stefan casting 1,000 miles through the Canadian wilderness. Awesome trip.

Stefan's awesome. Great communicator. Very excited to get into this one. And by the way, this is part

one of Stefan's story it was a

really long story and so we had to break it up into two but this is part one we're gonna play

part two next Thursday so be listening or you can just listen to the original episode

that's the whole thing but you'll have to find it in the archives. Let's go ahead and jump in.

Where are you coming from today?

Let's start with that.

Today you find me in Vancouver, British Columbia.

So that's the west coast of Canada, a couple hours north of Seattle for any of the Americans listening.

Oh, man, beautiful place.

And now is that home or are you on a trip right now?

No, it's definitely home.

It's not where I was born.

I was born in eastern Canada, Toronto area, and then spent time in Montreal. But I came out here to the West Coast about 20,

25 years ago to do. I'd figured out a way how to, I had a small scholarship after finishing my

undergrad. And I didn't know if I wanted to use it or not. But then I found a supervisor who was,

who thought that me going out into the Arctic for a summer

to do some research to float down a river through the tree line on the Anderson River and essentially

survey the plant communities as you go through from forest out into the tundra was a good idea

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